A Boring Dystopia

Sorry about all the broken veterans with TBIs. We could have invested in better healthcare infrastructure, TBI treatment research even better armor and helmets for our troopers dealing routinely with IEDs. But instead we got experimental tanks with active camo, a shitty plane which we're phasing out and aid to Israel to perpetuate their ancient religious genocide program.

It's just that US soldiers are poor and expendible and people with money tell us who and what is important.

And there are literal laws of nature that would prevent that from ever changing.

There's nothing complex about it. Israel imprisons an entire people and every time the UN tries to do something about it the US vetoes it.

The "it's complex" excuse is used to have people look the other way by turning it into a hopeless situation.

not fixing potholes have been around longer

They haven't been fixing potholes since 1949? Those potholes must be huge.

For the meme, maybe, but IRL maybe the road is no as nice as that one section.

Those federal taxes cannot be allocated to state funds which cannot then be allocated to city funds to maintain roads?

You're not wrong, but original point could still be right, depending in the road. There are many federal highways and interstates, where this equivalence makes sense. However most other roads are state, county or city owned.

Federal tax funds the maintenance of the Interstate Highways.

It’s been a closer to 3B for a while. Against a budget of $1.7T. It’s not even a rounding error.

Baby bones don't have a high enough density and material integrity for that to be an appropriate solution.

Yeah that doesn't really narrow it down.

That's true for a lot of the states, let alone other extant sovereign nations.

And what country is that?

How are we supposed to know if the news doesn't tell us?

What country